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Mountains + Molehills focuses on the adventures of the Sonoma Land Trust stewardship crew, and the day-to-day challenges and blessings that they face. The daily schedule of each crew member may involve working with power shovels, connecting with landowners, hiking around the Sonoma Valley Wildlife Corridor, building habitat for burrowing owls, avoiding skunks, trooping through poison oak, and so much more. Every day is an adventure, and we hope to share those adventures with you!

fall: a poetic reflection

9/26/2017

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by Bob Neale

​As I bumped around in my morning routine, I noticed the sun shining its early light so much lower on the horizon. Glorious. Every year it seems that it is suddenly fall.  Not a slow coming round the corner day by day but a thump, a sudden change, a new scent in the air, the colors are different, a sudden chill. 
 
Summer is over. I love autumn, even though I’m not a fan of change. And that’s what it harbors — the closing of childish joys of summer vacation, a visceral hint at the darkness and cold to come. And that brief time in between is the absolute best time to be alive in California and in Sonoma County. 
 
Don’t you just want to shut down your computer and run out into the fall air and frolic in the poetry of the season? Well, that’s what we like to do here at Sonoma Land Trust — literally. Enjoy a few Haiku written by our stewardship staff to ponder over a tasty cup of joe. 

Salt water returns
Gray harbor seal chooses bass 
In old field of rye
 
Julian Meisler
Sears Point
Sears Point. Photo by Peggy Ruffra.

Streams are dry, waiting
Weather changing quickly now
Smell of rain comes soon
 
Trevor George
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Live Oaks Ranch
Live Oaks Ranch. Photo by Stephen Joseph Photography.

Bohemia RanchBohemia Ranch. Photo by Stephen Joseph Photography.







​Noble oaks above
Stream trickles beauty below
Bohemia gold
 
Crystal Simons
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Dams out boulders in
Trees and pools and lots of bugs
Come back you old fish
 
Tony Nelson
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Stuart Creek Run
Stuart Creek Run. Photo by Lance Kuehne.

From sea to the sky
Golden eagle soars freely
Nesting on the rock mountain 
 
Shanti Edwards
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Golden Eagle
Photo by George Eade

Gold morning light pulls
On my heart, first chill, that scent
Summer slides away
 
Bob Neale
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Tolay Creek Ranch
Tolay Creek Ranch. Photo by Harvey Abernathy.

​Bob Neale is Sonoma Land Trust's stewardship director.

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Dale Carroll
9/26/2017 03:44:55 pm

What a wonderful surprise to open the M&M blog and read the beautiful poetry on the great transition to autumn. I was just commenting on the change in a discussion earlier today. I love this time of year.

Thanks!

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Elaine Webster link
9/26/2017 03:49:00 pm

I look forward to all your blog posts. This one is as special as its contributors.

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Lesli Lee
10/10/2017 05:46:23 pm

Evacuated
Grateful and praying for all
Presence and Blessings

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